2023 Build Season – Week 1
Week One
kick-off: Day 1
Team 359 started kickoff with a bang! We began by joining our fellow Hawaii FRC Teams for this year’s game reveal, which was hosted at Saint Louis High School by FRC Team 4270, The Crusaders. Upon returning back to Waialua High School, we wasted no time in getting to work! Our Construction team started working on building field elements, while our Control Systems team began by mapping out the field. Meanwhile, Business and Media (BAM) continued working on award submissions while documenting today’s progress. 359 then held a team brainstorming session where mentors, alumni, and students worked together to discuss rule, strategy, and robot design!
day 2
Students arrived early and began work right away! Whilst our Construction support teams was busy manufacturing our practice field, the mechanical Construction students used CAD to design a cushioned bumper for our FRC robot. Control System students learned a lot about the circuit board: wiring tubing, pneumatics, pneumatics pressure, and components. Business, Media, and Documentation took photos and videos, and resumed working on their FIRST Impact Award script and Slides. We ended the day with a team dinner, courtesy of our team mentors, to mark the beginning of build season and a long two days of work!
day 3
Our team has continued making progress! Control systems began by updating the software on their computers and rewiring a short circuit to have a brushless motor for manual control. Students learned how to make the robot motor turn and are now in the process of tuning a basic pid for the motor. The construction team continued to work on manufacturing the field, adding safety features which included 3D printed plugs/caps for the poles! The design team continued to prototype intakes and research for new designs. Meanwhile, BAM continued to work on FIRST Impact Award script and slides while documenting progress as usual, making sure to capture every moment and posting to social media to update our followers on our progress!
day 4
Construction support continued working on field elements, finishing the grid for the field and began working on the charging station. In Control Systems, mentors worked with students as they did a walk through of the process to tuning a pid. While imaging roborio with the new 2023 software. BAM worked with our online mentors to go over our FIRST Impact Award essay and presentation, prepared our weekly Waialuan Wednesday post on Social Media, and continued to take photos and videos of students working hard in preparation of our weekly build season update videos!
day 5
Inside our shop, our construction students continue to work on building the charging station while veteran students begin construction on the lifting mechanism, while cutting aluminum pieces and mounting the motors. Meanwhile Control systems has begun updating the 2022 code base to be compatible with the 2023 libraries and creating a breadboard for testing limelight’s AprilTags tracking software. Students have also started a practice program to learn how to create Java subsystems that interact with each other. Over in BAM, students have continued working on the presentation slides while brainstorming ideas for an FIRST Impact Award Video Essay about our program and posting our weekly Waialuan Wednesday to Social Media for one of our BAM members Asia Macatiag!
day 6
Individual subdivisions proceed in their progress and preparation for the upcoming travel season. Our Control Systems students continue their breadboard procedure in order to test future parts that will evidently be used for the new robot. Construction students continued assembly of the field charging station and began the second phase of CADing prototypes. BAM has continued to work on FIRST Impact Award and began working on Dean’s Lists as well as documenting the progress of other subdivisions and updating the daily build season posts. BAM has also began gathering clips and videos of students for the weekly recap video!
day 7
With the week almost over, students have been working their hardest to continue making progress. Construction completed the charging station and began working on the human player feeder stations. Meanwhile other students worked with mentors on robot designs and ideas and began machining parts. Over in Control Systems, students continued to work on the breadboard, testing electronics, and finished connecting pneumatic tumbling. They also began working on a base auto for the robot. BAM continued working on our FIRST Impact Award presentation and essay while taking photos and videos of students’ progress. BAM students also prepared for tomorrow’s weekly recap video recording which will feature Moorea and Bowen to update you all on our progress for the first week of build season!
day 8
Construction support finished up the practice field and began setting up the full field in our Cafeteria. Construction students continued designing subsystems and machining parts for the robot. Control Systems updated the electronic firmware for the breadboard and finished programming a new subsystem for our robot before working on a new autonomous firmware. BAM students worked on finalizing our FIRST Impact Award submissions and continued capturing moments for our weekly recap video for week 1.